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The director Benito Zambrano has adapted Dulce Chacón’s novel La voz dormida for the big screen. It tells the story of two sisters: one is pregnant and is in jail in Madrid where she has been sentenced to death; the other struggles from outside prison to save her life and get custody of the child. Zambrano explains that it’s the story, “of what should never have happened. What art and culture try to show is that we can be better than we are.This is what makes me make films: to show a part of history, not just so it doesn’t happen again, but also so we learn something.”
The film conveys all the horror and injustice of the period just after the Civil War in Spain.Zambrano says that,“I have gone a bit further than the novel because I needed the audience to understand the widespread terror that prevailed at that time. Otherwise it would have been just another rather bland film.”
Actress Inma Cuesta also stressed how shocked she was when she spoke to survivors of this period in order to prepare for her role: “Even if they made 200,000 films, it wouldn’t be enough to honour the memory of these women.”
La voz dormida is one of the films that have been preselected to represent Spain at the Oscars next year.
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